Written by Jonathan Amos
Image copyright: NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SSIThe American-led Cassini space mission to Saturn has just come to a spectacular end. Controllers had commanded the probe to be destroyed by plunging into the planet’s atmosphere.
Written by Liam Deacon
Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder and world’s richest man, has said the UK will continue as a world-leader in science and technology after Brexit, despite opposing the UK’s break from the European Union (EU).
Written by Tony Heller
On this date in 1944, a hurricane wiped out the Atlantic City boardwalks, damaged or destroyed every home in Ocean City, and damaged 700 miles of the Atlantic coast.
Written by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA scientists have found evidence that Mars’ crust is not as dense as previously thought, a clue that could help researchers better understand the Red Planet’s interior structure and evolution.
Written by BBC
Image copyright: QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY BELFASTQueen’s University Belfast scientists have designed a new flexible organic battery that could revolutionise how medical implants are powered.
Written by Tyler Durden
When retired Georgia Tech professor Judith Curry penned a blog post on her “Climate Etc.” website suggesting that it was scientifically irresponsible to tie the intensity of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma directly to climate change, she probably didn’t expect that she might trigger 1,000’s of progressives to call for her immediate imprisonment.
Written by PSI Staff
New study presents an algorithm that helps scientists identify coldest and hottest time periods. The algorithm is applied to a case study performed by Dr Darko Butina of winters recorded at Armagh Observatory (pictured) over a 161-year period between 1844 and 2004.
Written by James Delingpole
The vultures of climate alarmism are just loving this run of hurricane disasters.
Written by Lorrie Goldstein
It’s like something out of George Orwell’s 1984.
Canada’s Competition Bureau, an arm’s length agency funded by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to the tune of almost $50 million annually, investigated three organizations accused of denying mainstream climate science for over a year, following a complaint from an environmental group.
Written by Joseph E Postma
Who gets the honour of being identified as the world’s most braindead!? It’s not the outright Flat Earther’s, no, not at all!
Written by Duke University
A 52-million-year-old ankle fossil suggests our prehuman ancestors were high-flying acrobats. These first primates spent most of their time in the trees rather than on the ground, but just how nimble they were as they moved around in the treetops has been a topic of dispute.
Written by www.mirror.co.uk
Professor Stephen Hawking believes we will reach other planets as settlers “in the next hundred years”. And he reckons starships will eventually take “just a few years” to get us to planets that can be colonised. The scientist believes we face extinction from threats including pollution and climate change unless we go to new homes like Proxima b – 4.2 light years away and the nearest habitable planet.
Written by Sage Lazzaro
NASA‘s Juno spacecraft performed its eighth flyby of Jupiter and captured stunning images of the planet. The photos – captured on September 1 – show various points of interest on the giant gas planet in incredible detail.
Written by Mike Stobbe
A puzzling study of U.S. pregnancies found that women who had miscarriages between 2010 and 2012 were more likely to have had back-to-back annual flu shots that included protection against swine flu.
Written by Brian C Joondeph
Hurricane season is upon us. Harvey last week and Irma this week. Both monster storms are long overdue if one looks at the pattern of hurricanes throughout history.
Written by Tony Heller
On this date in the year 1900, Galveston, Texas (where I had the first date with my future wife) was destroyed by a hurricane. Ten thousand people died in America’s costliest natural disaster.